The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

w. Conrad, boss canvasman of Howes cir
Gus, was shot aud killed in quarrel. yesterday.
at Temple Tex, by VIM. Booker, peddler
following the circus.
Luke Russell, a young farmer Of Craven conn
ty, North Carolina, while assisting to arrest
Bill Williams (coored was shot and killed by
the latter. who escaped
Frederick Roth, convicted a short time since
at Wooster, o., of murder in the first degree.
for killing his wife, was yesterday sentenced to
be hanged on March 16, 1888. motion for new
trial having been overruled.
There is no trace of the steam tug Dryberry,
which piled upon Lake of the Woods and it is
reasonably certain that she was lost in a recent
storm. Among her passengers was George
Heenan, a well-known mining expert
A certificate filed in the county clerks
Office at New York, yesterday, setting forth
that the Western Union Telegraph Company,
through its directors, had increased its capital
$5.000000. This makes the total stock $50,
200, 900.
Thomas AIKEN and Edward Daley two young
men who had been in attendance At a clam bake
on Goat island, were returning to Cohoes, N.
Y, in a row boat, about o'clock last evening,
when they drifted into the current and over the
dam, and were drowned.
About IL o'clock yesterday morning the first
two floors of the dry-kilns at the Richmond ele-
vator, at Buffalo, N. Y. gave away. letting
down q large quantity of wet wheat and injur-
ing four men-Wm. Romer. Patrick Conner.
Tom Mahoney and VIM. Patterson-in the fall.
Freight engine No. 81. on tho Atlantic & Pa
cifc railway. exploded near Ashford, A. T.,
Tuesday, killing engineer Schroeder, fireman
Long and head brakeman Trap. The bodies
were found about 200 yards from the track,
frightfully mangled, torn, and only recogniza-
BILE by their clothes.
T. D. LOSS foreman Of tho mixing depart
ment of the Acme white lead-works at Detroit,
Mich. was caught in a belt yesterday. and be-
fore the machinery could be stopped was mass
of broken bones His head was crushed, his
neck. back, legs and arms broken. and one leg
nearly torn from the body.
An agent Of the Mutual Ressrve-fund Life
Insurance Association, of Now York, has been
arrested in Massachusetts for insuring the life
of man aged sixty-two years. State law
provides that no policy shall be issued to a per-
son over sixty years of age The agent will
be arraigned at Chelsea en- Wednesday.
The house of VIM. Wade, at Chester. Orange
county, New York, was burned yesterday morn
ing. Mr.. Wade, who is railroad man, arose at
3 o'clock and left his wife getting breakfast. On
returning he found the house in flames and Mrs
Wade missing. Her bones were found in the
ruins Coroner DeGraw will make an investi-
Cation.
Mrs. Lille Garrett who is suspected of hav-
ing caused the death Of her two i'm becile step
daughters and setting fire to the house in the
room whore they slept, was arrested yesterday
at Spencer, Medina county, Ohio. and viii have
dict. finding that the girls came to their death
from scalding and suffocaton.
Erick Wickstrom, a miner employed at the
Barnum iron mine. Ishpeming. Mich. was
taken SICK In Inc mine, late on w eonesoay nlgnts
and started to go to the surface Being unable
to climb the ladder, he got into the cage for
hosting Three hundred feet from the bot
tom of the shaft he was seized with vertigo and
fell from the cage, going to the bottom of the
shaft. His body was crushed to an unrecogniz-
able mass
Secretary Saunders Of the Consolidated Cat
tie growers Association states that the announce
ment contained In dispatches from Kansas City,
to the effect that the resolution calling upon
Congress to indemnify cattle owners for losses
occasionsd by the forced removal of cattle from
tine Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian reservations
was passed by tho late cattle convention, is
totally erroneous the resolution was merely
referred to the executive board of the associ-
alton.
John P. Donnelly, seventeen years of age
who was shot in the abdomen, Sunday after
noon, at Louisville. by George Frank. died yes
terday morning. The stories of the shooting, as
told by Frank and the boy, differ radically
Frank is sixty five years Of age, and claims that
tho crowd of boys were hootine and throwing
rocks at him. To brighten them he fred his
pistol at the ground. The bullet glanced and
hit young Donnelly. The friends of the latter
claim that he did not fire at the ground. and
that the shooting was done without provocation.
Frank is in jail